The Great Pumpkin

Beware of the image search... this is what I found when researching "The Great Pumpkin".

At first I thought this was a cute picture of a baby's bottom, but on closer inspection, I am thinking it is a big person's big bottom, not nearly as cute. So much for putting a cute image of classic Charlie Brown. Sorry to involve other innocent onlookers, I really just wanted to post cute pictures of my babies and Sylvie so why don't I get to that.  (The Babies B blog was censored this morning, it seems the other editor found my late night humor inappropriate, you can do your own image search if you are curious what profanity leads to censoring.)

Iman and Vince inspecting pumpkins

Here we are at Smolak Farms for our cute baby photo op around pumpkins and assorted other props of fall.  

Bibi and Sylvie

Is this my bongo?

Bibi stopping to smell the roses, or eat the flowers

We had a lovely day with many other friends and babies as well as most of Eastern Massachusetts.  It seems we weren't the only ones with the bright idea to bring their kids to a pumpkin patch.  I actually couldn't bear to stand in line for a pumpkin, so besides photos and good times, all I have to show for our outing is food now stuffed in my belly.... cider doughnuts, pumpkin ice cream, warm apple crisp and a cup of chowder.  Thank goodness I am eating for three.

Farmer Iman chewing on a piece of hay

The Bend

We have had a very busy week.  Grammy came for a visit last Wednesday until today and we went to South Bend for the weekend for my Arkie 11 year reunion.  The babies travelled really well except for what turned out to be a 5 hour car ride from Chicago to South Bend Friday evening.  That car ride was a little tense with me trying to change diapers, feed babies, and simultaneously navigate our way through traffic from the backseat with the help of the Iphone.  The navigation was the ball that was dropped and bumper to bumper traffic never helps.  We had a great weekend visiting old friends and meeting their beautiful babies.  It always helps when the Irish win the football game and the sun shines in the Bend, but I think I would have had a great time regardless.  I realized how few pictures I took, a casualty of twins.  Although almost everyone had a turn holding Iman and Tayeb, so I should have had a free hand to take plenty of photos, but I chose to stuff my face instead.  I also should have taken pictures of the crazy house we rented, it had and indoor and outdoor pool, a jacuzzi as well as an indoor basketball court.  It was a very strange layout but a perfect rental for us.  There were 14 adults and 6 kids and it didn't feel at all crowded.

  On Thursday we went for another photo shoot with grammy and got some great pictures, but we only have hard copies and their website has the images copy protected.  Last night Grammy had a big laugh playing dress up with Iman, and although she looks happy in this picture from today, we were all very sad to see Grammy go after such a short visit.  We look forward to Christmas.

 

happy half birthday

We celebrated the Babies B half birthday with their first professional photo shoot since they were four days old.  They did great, in the shots from the hospital we were lucky to get their eyes open without crying.  I probably sent an email to most of the blog viewers with a link to all the photos on Snapfish, but for those of you I may have missed and for posterity, here are a few of the images.  We also happened by the Cheesecake Factory and got a wonderful Dulce de Leche cheesecake on their behalf.

Dada

First words seem to be more ambiguous than I thought they would be.  Bibi said "Ahgoo" months ago.  I am not sure what language he was speaking, but it was definitely a word.  Wednesday evening (9.17.08) he started to say Dada, it started with a string of ada dada, but then later when Amine came home he said a few clear Dada's.  Yesterday and today he said it plenty of times, not yet for the camera unfortunately.  So is it his first word?  I am not sure.  He says it to me, to Amine, when he was in Sylvie's jumperoo, so maybe he has just discovered the "D" sound and happens to follow it with the "A" vowel, but it's Dada, it should count.  I didn't count Iman's first roll over because I assumed it was a fluke, like her first smile, just a stroke of luck and not intentional, and maybe Bibi's Dada is the same thing, but now that he's saying it, it's only a matter of time and convincing that he learns that everything isn't Dada, just Amine.

Quick trip

The babies and I took a road trip by ourselves to CT to visit Aunt Janet.  Iman loved her bling which made Grammy happy that she will have someone to buy jewelry for in the future.  Nikki and Alicia were also able to stop by and visit.  We learned that Nikki is going to have a little girl, so everyone had guessed right, we are very excited for her.  I am only thinking of it now, but it was the first time I traveled with the babies by myself other than little outings in the Boston area.  

     We also stopped by to visit Amy, Ron and baby Juliana.  She is almost exactly a year older than the Babies B.  It's amazing to see her and know that my kids will be doing all the things she is doing in a year.  Walking around, talking and feeding herself... unfortunately there are still diapers involved, but other than that it seems that this year will bring a lot of changes.  

     I can't believe they are already close to 6 months old.  Every day they seem to have a new trick.  Iman started her booty shake move down in CT and yesterday was doing a perfect downward dog yoga pose.  Bibi is sitting up on his own without slouching forward to his toes like he did before.  He still has the occasional tip over when his toy or item of interest is on one side.  Yesterday he was having a great time playing with his tongue, more rock star in the making.  Today when we visited Amine for lunch we gave them each a teething biscuit to try, they loved it.  In an attempt to promote more night time sleeping we have finally moved each baby to his/her own crib.  I think Bibi likes his new pad.  It's too late at night, I can't figure out how to move the pictures so they coordinate with what I wrote, I am sure you can match the appropriate photo with the text.... goodnight.